ALBINO KILLINGS MUST STOP!!!

Enough! Seriously, it is enough. These albino killings, they have to stop already. Hapana, we cannot keep going like this. It is completely unacceptable. Do you hear me? Unacceptable! What we see in the news, it cannot be happening in Tanzania; in our own land and around our clock. What has gotten to us?

Every time I hear that someone with albinism has been murdered, I think of how that contradicts who we claim to be as Tanzanians – polite, kind, loving, caring, wajamaa. Well, I guess this proves that so much has changed with the economic changes that our country has faced. The Tanzanian children do not belong to the village, as it used to be. We have become scavengers, strangers and alien to each other.

The more the Shilling is hard to get, the greedier and inhumane we seem to be. So should we blame it on the Shilling? It is the economy that has pushed us to cook our children in the name of riches, isn’t it? We sell them to the black market as if they were just any other commodity. What has become of us? This is another form of slavery only that the slave doesn’t live long to endure and triumph. I am telling you, it has got to stop.

And you know, the government is making promises again. She is wooing us, again. Telling us, oh it is going to be just fine. Just fine? By removing the witchdoctors from the equation? Of course it is not going to be just fine. If the witch doctor is still in business, it simply means that there is someone who keeps him there. Someone who makes him demand hair, a bone, skin of a person with Albinism. And it’s not like the government doesn’t know who and where they are. I refuse to believe that. If they can ‘handle’ some of the ‘greatest’ terrorists of our time (if being a terrorist is something to be great); the likes of Osama and Jihadi John; if the government is capable of working with other international bodies to ‘solve this,’ then this shouldn’t be hard to overcome. Remove the demand and you will deal with the supply.

But I am sure that they will say, witchcraft is an African problem, isn’t it? And it isn’t even real, is it? So we cannot hold them accountable because we don’t believe in witchcraft. Aha! Saying that in the public and then going to the witchdoctors themselves in hiding. We have become such hypocrites. No, no, no, this cannot continue this way. Something’s got to give.(By;Ester Mngondo)